Person

Robert Purdy (Pendleton County, KY, farmer)

b. 1812?

Pendleton County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Norris Purdy in Pendleton County, Kentucky, on March 17, 1836. Father of Samuel T. Purdy. Farmer in Pendleton County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Pendleton County in 1850. Farmer in Pendleton County in 1860. Employed Samuel T. Purdy as a farm worker in Pendleton County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Pendleton County in 1860.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, District 1, p. 356B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, District 1, p. 449.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, p. 581.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, p. 189B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, Precinct 1, p. 403A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pendleton County Marriages, 1801-1929, Film #000272804, p. 244 of 784 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Find A Grave, “Robert A. Purdy (1812-1884)," Memorial #7975060, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7975060/robert-a.-purdy (accessed May 15, 2021).

Citation

Purdy, Robert. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32279846 (November 12, 2026).

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